The spiritual world will be popularized in the army this year, and its significance is very far-reaching, and the military budget saved for exercises every year alone is enough for the military to build five more heavy tank divisions!

The traditional exercise mode has also been changed, and a large amount of exercise equipment in the military's inventory has become garbage, adhering to the principle of not wasting it, so the scale of this year's Spring Thunder military exercise in the Western Theater is extraordinarily huge.

Although the military has been shouting about the lack of military spending, this does not change the fact that the imperial military occupies the first place in the world in terms of per capita military spending, far more than twice the second-ranked Hundred Ethnic Federation.

There is no doubt that the results of this test are not bad, whether it is logistics, troop mobilization, military combat strength or leadership style, in the eyes of the director's department, it is worthy of the military spending that drives the Ministry of Finance mad.

But that had to be done except for that force.

This unit refers to the assault battalions that were part of the Red Army.

The performance of the assault battalion is actually very impressive, but the problems caused by the assault battalion are disturbing.

Director's Department.

A large number of generals were silently reading a proposal called "Proposal on the "Synthesis" Model, and it was the observation group from the Military Affairs Yuan that put forward this proposal.

Although the exercise was still going on and the various units were still working hard for the final victory, everyone in the director department was attracted by this proposal.

This is a very radical proposal, in which it is emphasized that it is necessary to form a composite force of more than 10 army groups within four years, and at the same time to reorganize the establishment of tank divisions, and retain no more than 3 tank divisions.

There are as many as 18 chariot divisions under the command of the Western Theater, which means that at least 15 chariot divisions must be eliminated!

"Too radical!" A lieutenant general slammed the proposal on the table: "I admit that the synthetic troops proposed by the Dragon Blade have terrifying combat effectiveness after being equipped with new equipment!" Under the threat of new equipment, the Heavy Group is a lamb to the slaughter, but! ”

"Abolish 15 tank divisions at once and form a composite unit of more than ten group armies, which will have a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the troops! If war breaks out, what do we do against the Japanese devils who are eyeing each other? ”

The existence of the Western Theater is to fight against the Japanese Alliance, and the lieutenant general's concerns are not wrong.

"If it's a ten-year deadline, I'll accept it! But four years is too short! Another lieutenant general also said that he could not accept it, after all, the four-year period was too short in terms of reorganization and training of officers and commanders and fighters!

Synthetic troop operations are a new proposition for the empire and the whole world, and four years is really too short a time, how can the generals rest assured?

"Reliable intelligence ......" Colonel Zhang Yaohui, the joint intelligence director of the Western Theater Theater, stood up and spoke at the signal of the theater commander Long Xiang: "It has been confirmed that at least 5 Japanese League divisions have carried out training on this tactic in the no-man's land as reserves, in fact, the Japanese League's exploration of the synthetic mode is a full seven years earlier than the Empire!" ”

"Seven years ago, the Japanese alliance obtained the 'guide part miniaturization technology', and this new tactic has been studied, and seven years later, no one knows what kind of results the Japanese alliance has achieved! If the empire does not make changes, once war breaks out suddenly, the eighteen chariot divisions in our western theater of operations will become expensive garbage burning on the plains in the shortest possible time. ”

The chariot unit is the blade of the empire, in a state of war, it is the chariot unit that rushes to the front line, if the imperial military does not make changes, the war breaks out, and the eighteen chariot divisions will be blown up into expensive garbage like the chariots lying on the 481 position!

After hearing Colonel Zhang Yaohui's words, the generals fell silent.

The empire is strong, economic and military strength are indispensable, since the empire won the Sino-Japanese hegemony more than 300 years ago, the empire has always been at the forefront of the military, never lagging behind, but now, it has been overtaken by the old enemy.

This was difficult for the generals to accept.

"However, the rash operation on the establishment does not have sufficient data and theoretical support, and this is too great a loss of the army's combat effectiveness!" Some generals are still worried that the assault battalion has completely made the blitzkrieg of the heavy group charge a thing of the past with their performance, and no general will have a negative attitude towards this model, but rashly doing major surgery on the establishment is too radical and the consequences are unbearable!

"Spiritual World!" As the deputy commander of the theater, General Ling Qiming, who hurried from the Red Division, explained at this time: "You already have an understanding of the spiritual world, and the problems that you are worried about that are not supported by data theory can be easily solved in the spiritual world, and there is no such thing as exercises in the spiritual world, and in the same way as war, we can learn the experience we need countless times!" ”

"The theater command already has a plan, and we can accept all the suggestions listed in this proposal, but we don't need to take a big step; in the first year, we can completely set up a composite battalion in each group army, accumulate experience, and then gradually expand the scale, and I believe that after countless actual battles, our commanders and fighters will have a clearer and clearer understanding."

Such a step was approved by the generals, and there was no one who did not want the army of the empire to become strong - unless it was an enemy, since it could not be compromised in combat, why not do it?

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Just as the director department was deciding on the important military reform policy of the Western Theater in the future, the final decisive battle broke out between the red and blue sides of the exercise.

Although the right flank of the Red Army was completely defeated, the Blue Army, which concentrated almost all of the heavy group, did not achieve the intended goal - two Red Army chariot divisions retreated safely from the right flank, and although they lost the vast majority of the troops on the right flank, they also dragged down the heavy group of the Blue Army.

At the same time, on the center line and the left flank, the Red Army launched the most fierce attack, and all the artillery, air force, and missile units were concentrated on these two lines.

The Red Army's airborne troops and special forces, which had been holding back for a long time, also attacked on all fronts, cooperating with the frontal battlefield to encircle the Blue Army.

The two heavily armed units of the Red Army's Yulin 51st Division and 71st Division, which had successfully evacuated from the right flank, were disgraced on the central front, creating a record of running 400 kilometers in two days, cutting through the entire central line and dividing the Blue Army.

The Red Army Air Force, which had withdrawn its hand, also avenged the 319th Regiment and the assault battalion - two tank divisions were subjected to continuous aerial bombardment, and in just four hours, the two fastest Blue tank divisions were ordered to withdraw from the battlefield.

However, Ye Xiao always felt that after achieving the purpose of the exercise, both the red and blue sides seemed to give each other face, so the exercise ended in a laughable draw.

The 3rd Brigade of the Dragon Blade, which belonged to the Blue Army, successfully beheaded the Red Army Headquarters and "killed" a large number of generals, and the Red Army was also not far behind, blocking the Blue Division with airborne troops, and the magic mechanized troops made a surprise attack and wiped out the Blue Division.

This is the closing ceremony of the most hilarious exercise in Ye Xiao's opinion, and the headquarters of both sides will be reimbursed together!

With the decision of the exercise director to draw the game, the 21 Spring Thunder military exercise, which lasted for a full day, finally came to an end.

As for the fact that the assault battalion and the 319th regiment were awarded collective second-class merit by the theater commander because of their beautiful blocking battle, they were not elaborated, and the only thing worth mentioning is that the assault battalion that won the collective second-class merit because of its tenacious perseverance was additionally awarded the honorary number of the "Blade" assault battalion.

This is the most interesting point, how can the meaning of the blade not be related to the beautiful defense of the assault battalion, right?

Well, as for our protagonist Ye Xiao, because of his performance in the exercise, the rank that was taken off by Major General Niu was hung up again, and he continued to be one star at a time.

There is also good news, Dragon Blade, the trump card with three special brigades, was specially authorized by the Military Affairs Institute to form the first synthetic brigade of the empire - the 101st Brigade of the Black Flag Army.

The news was so low-key that it wasn't even published in the military newspapers - this was the first time in the history of the empire that the Black Flag had been rebuilt since the Black Flag Army was dismantled, and its significance was self-evident.

After all, Black Flag is a terrifying monster born for war!

In Ye Xiao's dream, the Black Flag Army was rebuilt, and it was really the third year of the outbreak of the war, but now, it was six years ahead of schedule!

(Well, the second volume is also finished...... Foreshadowing...... Full foreshadowing...... It's so tiring! ）